To: Ali Chen who wrote (135991 ) 5/23/2001 9:01:18 PM From: deibutfeif Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894 Ali, hey! Thanks for the thought...The 100% "utilisation" does not have any relation with consumed power. Well, I suppose one would have to know how they came to the "100%" determination.On the other hand, the no-load power of their system was dissipated with 7-8 deg.C above ambient. At their load, the 58C means that the difference grew up to 32C, or about 4 times. This must be a very impressive application! Weren't we told that the max feasible power of P4 is only 25-30% higher than the typical? And now we have an app with 400% more power, right? So, where the truth is? OK, so you've made an exciting (but irrelevant) apples-to-oranges comparison: that is, comparing the "max-to-noload ratio" to the "max-to-typical ratio". Now boys and girls, please compute the "typical-to-noload ratio". 2. The tool does not display any throttling. When the throttling actually kicks off at 67 deg.C (according to the displayed temperature), no warning was displayed on my system. I guess I'll just assume that it didn't (throttle). After all, we know the throttler is just there as a safety mechanism in case the cooling system is substandard. :^)3. "And that's with only two of the four fans in the Cooler Master case" Wow! Only two fans! That was impressive. Agreed!4. "on a warm afternoon (ambient temp 22-23C)," Warm? It must be Alaska I guess. The thing apparently won't work in Texas or Arizona. Maybe sometimes at nights... Take the ambient 12 deg.C higher (which is not unusual), and you are above the red line. <i/> Actually, it should be able to run here in AZ now that we finally got an A/C unit installed (boy, sure makes a difference - this time last year was murder). Hey Elmer, got A/C yet? I definitely recommend it. former "Droid" ????? ~dbf